One more reason to be bilingual

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Martin Votruba wrote:

[quoting my quotation of a /Korea Times/ article without attribution:]
>> published Wednesday
>
> As a detail, the article has been online and reported by the media
> repeatedly since November 6 (i.e., in the 21st century, The Korea
> Times might try to "delay" their, well... potential obsolescence by
> reporting when things are posted rather than printed).

The /KT/ honestly includes its posting date November 8, 2013, and for my 
part I will honestly say that I just saw the article yesterday and 
failed to quote their publication date. So any delay is my fault, not 
theirs; no deception was intended by either of us. The two-day gap 
between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8 is probably the time it took for them to 
discover the Hyderabad study, write it up in Korean, and then translate 
the result to English for the U.S. market. 정말 죄송합니다.

> Previous research in Canada and the southern U.S. suggested that
> merely being able to speak two languages that one learned in
> adulthood doesn't cut it (although both studies relied on
> self-reporting, so at least some of those who said they spoke two
> languages may have been overstating things), as opposed to being
> bilingual and continually speaking two languages since childhood,
> which gave results comparable to the Hyderabad study.

Here it probably would be best to revise the headline to read, "One more 
reason to be /actively/ bilingual." I took that for granted and did not 
think to comment as Martin has. I can't comment intelligently on the 
difference between juvenile- and adult-onset bilingualism for this purpose.

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--
Paul B. Gallagher
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